Manufacturing Reciprocities

Abstract

Abstract Following in the footsteps of more progressive industries, digital fabrication in architecture is on the brink of shifting from task‐specific computer numerically controlled (CNC) machines to more generic industrial robots. The change from machine hardware and control software developed to facilitate a specific fabrication process towards more open‐ended and generic fabrication devices enables architects to design custom fabrication processes and machine‐control protocols. Achim Menges and Tobias Schwinn present how these advanced machine capabilities expand the interface between design computation and physical materialisation. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.